Computer Science GCSE
Capacity calculation
What Capacity calculation means in Computer Science GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Capacity calculation
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Reference: OCR
Total capacity is calculated by multiplying the number of items by the size of each item, then converting to a sensible unit.
Topics that use Capacity calculation
- Units (OCR GCSE)
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